Tuk tuk tuk!

Kan dah cakap... kalau nama melayu burung biasa ikut bunyi.. kalau burung belatuk bunyinyaaa... tuk tuk tuk..bila ia mengetuk batang pokok..

Ini jumpa kat pokok jambu dekat Sawah Padi kat bukit Cerakah


Belatuk Merah
Banded Yellownape
Picus miniaceus

kat bukit Cerakah jugak, tapi kat arboretum.

Belatuk Leher Kuning
Buff-necked Woodpecker
Meiglyptes tukki


Belatuk Pinang Kecil
Common Flameback
Dinopium Javanense



Belatuk Biji Nangka
Rufous Woodpecker
Celeus Brachyurus


Itu je..
penat ler badan nih lenguh2...
dah tua..
belum jumpa lagi Woody-Woody Woodpecker...
yang famous tuu!

**transfered from my other blog dated 24 July 2008 & 15 August 2008

Bukan Layang-Layang ke?

Dari jauh nampak macam burung Layang - Layang pasifik , ikut motto aku, "Shoot first, ask later", aku ambil lah gambar... balik rumah, proses dalam komputer baru nampak burung apa..


Helang Belalang / Falco Rajawali
Black-thighed Falconet
Microhierax fringillarius

Ia ialah burung helang yang terkecil dunia. Hanya sepanjang 16cm sebesar Layang-Layang Pasifik, dipanggil Helang Belalang atau Falco Rajawali.



Layang - Layang Pasifik yang lebih kurang saiznya.

**transfered from my other blog dated 15 July 2008

The Story Behind The Cage.

I am not fond of seeing birds in cages, it seems that they seems sad.. In the wild, you can see them singing, flying happily just as they are.. but in the small cages, they cant. They cant pick their favourite food, cant find their mates.. Do they really sing as lovely in cages as in the wild?

My friends that know I take bird pics asked me, if i have been to Bird Park in Kuala Lumpur.

"No" is my answer..

I rather sit and watch the common Yellow-Vented Bulbul singing and flying freely in the wild than see exotic birds in deplorable state in cages..



This columbidae family (Pigeons and Doves) was in a cage at National Botanic Park, Shah Alam. Out of instinct I took a record shot of what kind of animals in which cage.. I saw a phyton was in the cage in 2008. According to the exif, this pigeon was in this cage in 26/7/2009.

In 27/12/2009, I passed thru this cage again and surprised to see two owls in it..



One is a juvenile Buffy-Fish Owl. Although I have never seen this species in the wild. I cant count this as my lifer. All my lifer is a wild bird.

Another is rather sad looking Barred Eagle-Owl. Looks like it is injured somehow.. It make a sad call while I was there as if it were crying..



The Buffy-Fish Owl seems fine enough to fly down and eat something that looks funnily like a bird..



I left the cage hoping it will be taken care by the people who put them in the cage..

In 10/1/2010, I intentionally took a path which passes the cages just to look at the bird condition.



and, it look just fine, looks healthy to me..The Buffy-Fish Owl is not there..being released i think..
maybe a happy ending afterall..

until...

last weekend in 30/1/2010, It is dead..



I'm pretty sure its an owl carcass.. they didnt even cleaned up the mess.. i wonder did they even feed the birds? or did the birds of prey eat each other until they are all dead? Uhh..



Look at the clean bird skull, must have taken at least a week for the maggots to do their job..

Hmm the ostrich are gone too!



Dying of thirst?

Which raises a lot of questions...

which I will just ask one.

With the Jabatan Perhutanan, Perhilitan and Jabatan Pertanian just around the corner, dont they have qualified vets and caretaker to take care of the animals that they caged up in the park